Alor-Pantar languages: origins and theoretical impact

该项目旨在进一步记录和分析印度尼西亚东南部阿洛尔-潘塔尔群岛的非南岛语言。直到最近，这些语言还是印度尼西亚记录最少的语言之一，所有这些语言都濒临灭绝。该项目的重点是：1.空间参照和数字表达的扩展文献。2.词类类型学：词类和语法特征之间的连续体；形态句法范畴如何演变；阿洛尔-潘塔尔语言中不寻常的形态句法现象。三.语言史前史：以自下而上的重建为基础的阿洛尔-潘塔尔语言遗传地位的定量证据，以建立遗传亚群并评估与新几内亚语言的潜在遗传关系。

This project aims to further document and analyze the non-Austronesian languages of the Alor-Pantar archipelago of southeastern Indonesia. Until very recently these languages were among the least well-documented languages of Indonesia, and all of them are endangered. The project focuses on: I. Extended Documentation of spatial reference and numerical expressions.II. Word Class Typology: the continuum between word classes and grammatical features; how morphosyntactic categories evolve; unusual morphosyntactic phenomena of the Alor-Pantar languages. III. Linguistic Prehistory: quantitative evidence for the genetic position of the Alor-Pantar languages, based on bottom-up reconstruction to establish genetic subgroups and evaluate potential genetic relationships with languages of New Guinea.